From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bowers, AndrewX Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 18:50:42 +0000 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S55 02/14] i40e: Quick refactor to start moving data off stack and into Tx buffer info In-Reply-To: <1480377971-23412-3-git-send-email-bimmy.pujari@intel.com> References: <1480377971-23412-1-git-send-email-bimmy.pujari@intel.com> <1480377971-23412-3-git-send-email-bimmy.pujari@intel.com> Message-ID: <26D9FDECA4FBDD4AADA65D8E2FC68A4A0FA38EE4@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at lists.osuosl.org] On > Behalf Of Bimmy Pujari > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 4:06 PM > To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S55 02/14] i40e: Quick refactor to start > moving data off stack and into Tx buffer info > > From: Alexander Duyck > > This patch does some quick work to pull some of the data off of the stack and > hopefully start storing it in the Tx buffer info section of the Tx ring. Ideally > we should be moving away from having to store much of anything on the > stack and can just maintain it all in the descriptor rings. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Change-ID: I4b4715ea1920e122502482b3f9e56a9a6cb1e9fe > --- > Testing Hints: > This should not break the transmit path and should have no > signficant impact on Tx performance. It brings us closer to what > is already in ixgbe and enables us to add support for a workaround > needed to deal with gso_size less than 64. > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 47 +++++++++++++++-------- > ---- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 47 +++++++++++++++------- > ----- > 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) Tested-by: Andrew Bowers